What will happen? Moving photos/LR between computers.

I've been abroad in Spain with my laptop for half a year, and i started using LR after i came here.
I love it, except that it's a bit slow.
I have my pictures on an external USB disk and have LR installed here on my laptop.
Anyway, i'm going home in a couple of weeks, and i'm going to buy a new desktop computer to do image processing on, won't do that on my laptop again unless i'm going for a long vacation.
I assume i won't have a problem installing lightroom on my desktop computer(i realize that i only have one permit right? so i'll have to uninstall from my laptop i guess).
But how do i actually move my entire library of photos?
They are right now in something like
Z:\Bjarni\Archives\EOS\yyyy-mm-dd
But will most likely be in something completly diffrent on my new computer, except that the EOS\yyyy-mm-dd will remain the same...
So, does lightroom store absoloute locations? or relative?
What would be the best way to go about doing this?

>So i'm guessing that if i just copy this folder over to my new computer all should be good?
Yes, copy the
Folder containing the
Lightroom Database.lrdb and
Lightroom Previews.lrdata file/folder to your new computer.
You can then connect the portable USB drive to your new computer, copy the image files across or just leave them on the portable drive. Either way, when Lightroom is launched the thumbnails will very likely appear with a
? symbol on the top right corner and the folder names will appear in red. This symbol is used to alert you to fact that Lightroom can no longer find the files. If this happens follow the guidance provided
Here
If space permits I would recommend copying the image files across to your internal disk drive, but it's not absolutely necessary.
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